"Pollock (film) Pollock is a 2000 biographical film which tells the life story of American painter Jackson Pollock. It stars Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Jennifer Connelly, Robert Knott, Bud Cort, Molly Regan and Sada Thompson, and was directed by Harris. Marcia Gay Harden won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for portraying Lee Krasner, Pollock's wife. Ed Harris received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of Pollock. The film was a long-term personal project for Harris based on his previous reading of Pollock's biography. The film opens ""in medias res"" to abstract expressionist painter"
"Lee Krasner Lenore ""Lee"" Krasner (October 27, 1908 – June 19, 1984) was an American abstract expressionist painter in the second half of the 20th century. She is one of the few female artists to have had a retrospective show at the Museum of Modern Art. Krasner was born as Lena Krassner (outside the family she was known as Lenore Krasner) on October 27, 1908 in Brooklyn, New York. Krasner was the daughter of Chane (née Weiss) and Joseph Krasner. Her parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants, from Shpykiv, a Jewish community in what is now Ukraine. Her parents fled to the"
"multiplied its presale estimate more than fourfold as it ended its upward course at $1.9 million. Lee Krasner Lenore ""Lee"" Krasner (October 27, 1908 – June 19, 1984) was an American abstract expressionist painter in the second half of the 20th century. She is one of the few female artists to have had a retrospective show at the Museum of Modern Art. Krasner was born as Lena Krassner (outside the family she was known as Lenore Krasner) on October 27, 1908 in Brooklyn, New York. Krasner was the daughter of Chane (née Weiss) and Joseph Krasner. Her parents were Russian-Jewish"
"they both exhibited at the McMillen Gallery. Krasner was intrigued by his work and the fact she did not know who he was since she knew many abstract painters in New York. She went to his apartment to meet him. By 1945, they moved to The Springs on the outskirts of East Hampton. In the summer of that year, they got married in a church with two witnesses present. While the two lived in the farmhouse in The Springs, they both continued creating art. They worked in separate studio spaces on their property. Krasner worked in an upstairs bedroom in"
"along with personal frustration, his alcoholism deepened. The two artists met while they both exhibited at the McMillen Gallery in 1942. Krasner was unfamiliar, yet intrigued with Pollock's work and went to his apartment, unannounced, to meet him following the gallery. In October 1945, Pollock and Lee Krasner were married in a church with two witnesses present for the event. In November, they moved out of the city to the Springs area of East Hampton on the south shore of Long Island. With the help of a down-payment loan from Peggy Guggenheim, they bought a wood-frame house and barn at"
"Rudolf Hausner Rudolf Hausner (Vienna, 4 December 1914 – 25 February 1995) was an Austrian painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. Hausner has been described as a ""psychic realist"" and ""the first psychoanalytical painter"" (Gunter Engelhardt). Of Jewish origins, Hausner studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1931 until 1936. During this period he also traveled around Europe, visiting England, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Egypt. After he was designated a 'degenerate' artist in 1938, exhibition of his work was banned in Germany. He was a soldier from 1941 until 1945. In 1942 he married Grete Czingely. Before"
"Lord, for creating me in Your image'; and if you are a woman you say, 'Thank You, O Lord, for creating me as You saw fit.'"" She also began reading existentialist philosophies during this time period, causing her to turn away from Judaism even further. While she married Pollock in a church, Krasner continued to identify herself as Jewish but decided to not practice the religion. Her identity as a Jewish woman has affected how scholars interpret the meaning of her art. At a 2003 Christie's auction in New York, Lee Krasner's horizontal composition in oil on canvas, ""Celebration"" (1960),"
"age 77), he received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation’s ""Lee Krasner Award"" in recognition of his lifetime in the arts. In 2005, the Morgan Library and Museum acquired his journals—148 hand-written volumes produced between 1952 and the present—making his introspective writing, which covers a vast range of topics across the span of six decades, accessible to art historians and scholars. Charles Seliger Charles Seliger (June 3, 1926 – October 1, 2009) was an American abstract expressionist painter. He was born in Manhattan June 3, 1926, and he died on 1 October 2009, in Westchester County, New York. Seliger was one of the"
"the California Water Color Society's Annual Exhibition of 1962. His abstract work ""Northward"" was requested by the Long Beach Museum of Art in 1957 and remains in the museum's permanent collection as Abstract Expressionism. Jay Meuser Jay Meuser (September 28, 1911 — August 19, 1963) was an American abstract expressionist painter. Meuser's style was versatile and his works prolific, in his lifetime he worked as an illustrator, portrait painter and cartoonist for several newspaper editorial pages. He married Dorothy Ellen Morris in 1938. Their only child, Jacqueline Ellen Meuser, married Suren Saroyan, MD, cousin of the famous American Playwright William"
"Gretna Campbell Gretna Campbell Finkelstein (1922–1987) was an American painter and educator who was affiliated with the abstract expressionist New York School. Campbell's works are described as having developed ""among a generation of painters respectful of the achievements of Abstract Expressionism but confident that depictions of the natural world remained timely and significant."" Born in the Bronx, Campbell began formal studies in painting in 1939 attending an art workshop organized by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and continued at Cooper Union and the Art Students League in New York City. In 1946, she married fellow New York School artist Louis"
"Willem de Kooning Willem de Kooning (; ; April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch abstract expressionist artist. He was born in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. He moved to the United States in 1926, and became an American citizen in 1962. On December 9, 1943, he married painter Elaine Fried. In the years after World War II, de Kooning painted in a style that came to be referred to as abstract expressionism or ""action painting"", and was part of a group of artists that came to be known as the New York School. Other painters in this"
"had his first one-man exhibition in the Konzerthaus, Vienna. A key work of this period, ""It's me!"" (1948; Vienna, Hist. Mus.), shows his awareness of Pittura Metafisica and Surrealism in a psychoanalytical painting where the elongated being in the foreground penetrates what was apparently a real landscape, until it tears like a backdrop; another painting, ""Forum of Inward-turned Optics"" (1948; Vienna, Hist. Mus.), is evidence of his ability to depict the subject in a realist style while simultaneously overturning the laws of one-point perspective. He married Hermine Jedliczka in 1951; their daughter Xenia Hausner, also an artist, was born the"
"as a way to move towards Pollock's ""I am nature"" technique in order to reproduce nature in her art. Lee Krasner's largest challenge as an artist was to establish a separation between herself and her husband that was not strictly the otherness of a woman. In 1955, Pollock painted ""Scent"" and ""Search,"" his last two paintings. He did not paint at all in 1956, but was making sculptures at Tony Smith's home: constructions of wire, gauze, and plaster. Shaped by sand-casting, they have heavily textured surfaces similar to what Pollock often created in his paintings. Pollock and Krasner's relationship began"
"Krasner died in 1984, age 75, from natural causes. She had been suffering from arthritis. Six months after her death, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City held a retrospective exhibition of her work. A review of the exhibition in the ""New York Times"" noted that it ""clearly defines Krasner's place in the New York School"" and that she ""is a major, independent artist of the pioneer Abstract Expressionist generation, whose stirring work ranks high among that produced here in the last half-century."" As of 2008, Krasner is one of only four women artists to have had"
"well as the California School of Fine Arts. He married Frances (a former artist figure model) in 1937; they later divorced. His second marriage was to Mary Fuller, an artist and author, on December 1949. They lived in the North Bay, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Settling down in the Sonoma Mountain area in Petaluma, California. Robert Pearson McChesney died in 2008. Robert P. McChesney Robert Pearson McChesney (1913–2008) was a California post-war artist, Abstract Expressionist painter, assemblage artist, printmaker, sculptor and teacher. He is considered one of the ""progenitors of Bay Area abstract expressionism"". He grew up in"
"Lee Lozano Lee Lozano (November 5, 1930 – October 2, 1999) was an American painter, and visual and conceptual artist. Born Lenore Knaster in Newark, New Jersey, she started to use the name ""Lee"" at the age of fourteen, often preferring to go by the simpler, if more enigmatic ""E."" She attended the University of Chicago as an undergraduate from 1948 to 1951. She studied philosophy and natural sciences; received B.A. In 1956 she married Adrian Lozano, a Mexican-born architect. The marriage ended in divorce four years later. During this time (1956–1960), she earned a B.F.A. from The Art Institute"
"States in 1941 and were married at the end of the year. Along with other artists and friends (Marcel Duchamp and Marc Chagall) who had fled from the war and lived in New York City, Ernst helped inspire the development of Abstract expressionism. His marriage to Guggenheim did not last and in Beverly Hills, California in October 1946, in a double ceremony with Man Ray and Juliet P. Browner, he married Dorothea Tanning. The couple made their home in Sedona, Arizona from 1946 to 1953, where the high desert landscapes inspired them and recalled Ernst's earlier imagery. Despite the fact"
"Breaking with traditional conventions in 1945 after reading André Breton's ""Le Surréalisme et la Peinture"", he began experimenting with non-objective (or non-representational) painting. He was one of the signers of the ""Refus global"" manifesto. In 1947 Riopelle moved to Paris and continued his career as an artist, where, after a brief association with the surrealists (he was the only Canadian to exhibit with them) he capitalized on his image as a ""wild Canadian"". His first solo exhibition took place in 1949 at the Surrealist meeting place, ""Galerie La Dragonne"" in Paris. Riopelle married Françoise Lespérance in 1946; the couple had"
"1881, and she remained an active member of the Impressionist circle until 1886. In 1886, Cassatt provided two paintings for the first Impressionist exhibition in the US, organized by art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel. Her friend Louisine Elder married Harry Havemeyer in 1883, and with Cassatt as advisor, the couple began collecting the Impressionists on a grand scale. Much of their vast collection is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Cassatt also made several portraits of family members during that period, of which ""Portrait of Alexander Cassatt and His Son Robert Kelso"" (1885) is one of"
"but never undertook formal art studies. She attended Miss Fines in Princeton and was separately tutored in art and music all the time making childhood trips to Europe. On January 30, 1935 she married Morris who was encouraging to her artistic career. Her paintings were done in a realist style until the time of her marriage to abstract painter and collector George L.K. Morris in 1935. Morris introduced her to the work of European modernists like Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Georges Braque, and Juan Gris, which inspired her to explore a more abstract Cubist manner. In April (1937) she joined"
"allying himself with and co-founding the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism his works were mainly Expressionist-influenced images of suburbs, still lifes, and female models, most of which he destroyed. In 1944, Hausner married Irene Schmied. During the last days of the second world war he was assigned to an air defense unit. After the war, he returned to his bomb-damaged studio and resumed work as an artist. In 1946 he founded a surrealist group together with Edgar Jené, Ernst Fuchs, Wolfgang Hutter and Fritz Janschka. They were later joined by Arik Brauer and Anton Lehmden. He joined the Art-Club and"
"Gallery in New York City. Her work was featured in ""Women of Abstract Expressionism"" at the Denver Art Museum from June–September, 2016, and at the Palm Springs Art Museum in 2017. Much like her female abstract expressionist contemporary Lee Krasner, whose work was cast in her husband’s shadow until his death, Schwabacher’s work stands as an example of gender politics in art as her works are continually attributed her role as a woman, wife, and mother. Her allusion to Greek themes and myths in the ""Odes"" series are said to have been influenced by the death of her husband, but"
"his work at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. His wife of 47 years, writer, Francine du Plessix Gray reported that he died of ""massive subdural hematoma suffered after he fell on ice and hit his head."" Cleve Gray Cleve Gray (September 22, 1918 in New York CityDecember 8, 2004 in Hartford, Connecticut) was as an American Abstract expressionist painter, who was also associated with Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction. He was born Cleve Ginsberg. The family changed their name to Gray in 1936. He attended the Ethical Culture School in New York City (1924–1932); and from age 11"
"his teacher Alexey Brodovitch that Pollock was an important painter. In July 1950, Namuth approached Pollock and asked to photograph the artist working in his studio. Pollock agreed, encouraged by his wife, Lee Krasner, who was aware of the importance of media coverage. The resulting images helped to demystify Pollock's famous ""drip"" technique of painting, revealing it to be a deliberative process rather than a random splashing of paint. They ""helped transform Pollock from a talented, cranky loner into the first media-driven superstar of American contemporary art, the jeans-clad, chain-smoking poster boy of abstract expressionism,"" according to acclaimed culture critic"
"Elaine de Kooning Elaine de Kooning (March 12, 1918 – February 1, 1989) was an Abstract Expressionist and Figurative Expressionist painter in the post-World War II era. She wrote extensively on the art of the period and was an editorial associate for ""Art News"" magazine. On December 9, 1943, she married painter Willem de Kooning. Elaine de Kooning was born Elaine Marie Catherine Fried in 1918 in the Flatbush, New York. Later in life Elaine told people she was born in 1920. Her parents were Mary Ellen O'Brien, an Irish Catholic, and Charles Frank Fried, a Protestant of Jewish descent."
"Peter Krasnow Peter Krasnow (20 August 1886 — 30 October 1979), born Feivish Reisberg, was a modernist and colorist artist known for his abstract wood sculptures and architectonic hard-edge paintings and drawings which were often based on Hebrew calligraphy and other subjects related to his Jewish heritage. Krasnow lived in Los Angeles for most of his life. Born in 1886 in Novohrad-Volynskyi, Ukraine, he was an apprentice to his father, who was an interior decorator. Krasnow emigrated to the United States in 1907 and graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1916. Krasnow first exhibited in the 1920s. He"
"synthesize abstraction yet continued painting figurally; he also kept on developing the mythology and totemism that defined his style. In 1944 he married Helana Holzer, whom he divorced in 1950. In 1946 he and Breton spent four months in Haiti. There Lam enriched his already extensive understanding and knowledge of African divinity and magic rituals through observing Voodoun ceremonies, although he later said that his contact with the African spirituality that he found throughout the Americas did not directly impact his formal style. African poetry, on the other hand, was said to have had a broadening effect on his paintings."
"Jay Meuser Jay Meuser (September 28, 1911 — August 19, 1963) was an American abstract expressionist painter. Meuser's style was versatile and his works prolific, in his lifetime he worked as an illustrator, portrait painter and cartoonist for several newspaper editorial pages. He married Dorothy Ellen Morris in 1938. Their only child, Jacqueline Ellen Meuser, married Suren Saroyan, MD, cousin of the famous American Playwright William Saroyan. ""I've led a most full life,"" he said to his wife just before his death. Besides teaching at the Art School of San Francisco, he had been a baseball pitcher, a vaudeville performer,"
"teacher was to advance the ideals of color as the basis for painting; as opposed to tonal painting. He was most interested in creating visual poetry in the tradition of the Claude Monet, while advancing that art movement; the true progression of art in Hensche's eyes. Hensche was at times a vocal dissident of the many art movements of the 20th Century. Hensche married fellow artist Ada Rayner, an English immigrant who had worked as a governess when she first arrived in America. They married in 1936 and maintained a home in Provincetown until their deaths (she in 1985, he"
"settled in the Atwater Village neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1922, purchasing the land where he built his home and studio from Edward Weston, who was his friend and a fellow member of the early Los Angeles avant-garde. Krasnow lived there for over 50 years. His work was included in the exhibit that launched MOCA. He received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 1977. In 2000, the Laguna Art Museum acquired over 500 pieces of his work. Peter Krasnow Peter Krasnow (20 August 1886 — 30 October 1979), born Feivish Reisberg, was a modernist and colorist artist known"
"Much of his art has biblical, mythological, and mystical themes. He taught at UCLA and Otis Art Institute, and eventually became a tenured professor of art at California State University, Northridge, where he retired as professor emeritus in 1973. His artwork has been installed and exhibited throughout the world, including France, Italy, Germany, England, and the United States. Faiss was married to Janet Wullner until his death in 1981 at the age of 76. Fritz Faiss Fritz Wilhelm Faiss (March 6, 1905 – October 1, 1981) was a German-American abstract expressionist artist. Faiss was born on March 6, 1905 in"
"after his father's death, he bought his first piece of modern art, a watercolor painting by Emil Nolde dated from between 1931 and 1935, starting the entry of 20th century's paintings in the collection (including Edgar Degas, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, and Fernand Léger). His preference however went to German Expressionism, and he soon became a real expert in painting. He married firstly at Lugano-Castagnola, 1 August 1946, Austrian Princess Teresa of Lippe-Weissenfeld at Vienna (21 July 1925 – 16 July 2008), whose family had been reigning princes until the fall of the German Empire in 1918 (following their divorce"
"Lee Krasner, Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Tony Smith, Morris Graves and others were also related, important and influential artists during that period. Though the numerous artists encompassed by this label had widely different styles, contemporary critics found several common points between them. Gorky, Pollock, de Kooning, Kline, Hofmann, Motherwell, Gottlieb, Rothko, Still, Guston, and others were an American painters associated with the abstract expressionist movement and in most cases Action painting (as seen in Kline's ""Painting Number 2"", 1954); as part of the New York School in the 1940s and 1950s. Many first generation abstract expressionists were influenced both by"